part of what you re doing is teaching kids the adventure of the hudson river. absolutely. you know, a lot of these students live within half a mile of the river but have never been out on it. reporter: in 2013, chip reynolds captains a replica of the half moon as a teaching ves sel for middle school kids. each year in mid-september he makes a voyage from lower manhattan to albany. it s the exact route henry hudson took along an unexplored waterway that would eventually bear his name. hudson was an adventurer but he was also a business man with the dutch east india company. we had to document everything precisely for trading purposes. for example, making the happens, you can take the maps he made from 1609 and lay them against maps today and they re almost precisely the same. like hudson s crew, reynolds kids say about is stay busy.
reynolds says he not only tries to recreate the tasks of the original voyage, but also its wonder. all the new foods, meeting new people, making new friends, learning new things. i never sailed a boat before, and now i have. reporter: the captain is now trying to expand the educational experience with a learning center on the banks of the hudson which he says will hopefully reach more and more students. our waterways made our country what it is today. how important is it for us to stay connected to rivers like the hudson river? well, the past and present are intimately connected. through the past we can see how important these rivers were then and remind ourselves about how important they are today. reporter: he says anyone who agrees it s important to learn more about the hudson river both in the past and present can go
chip reynolds made a replica of the half moonvesle as a teaching mechanism and each september reynolds makes a voice from lower manhattan to albany. it s the exact route henry hudson took along an unexplored waterway that would eventually bear his name. now, hudson was an adventurer, but he was also a businessman with the dutch east company. he had to document everything. for example, making maps, you can take the maps he made from 1609 and lay them against maps today and they re almost precisely the same. the kids stay busy monitoring the wind s temperature and wind speeds and diligently recording its depths. reynolds says he not only tries to recreate the tasks of the original voyage but also its wonder. all the new foods, meeting new people, making new friends,